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Have People from North a bigger issue with drink.

  • 22-09-2017 1:37am
    #1
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,001 ✭✭✭✭


    Watching First Dates Ireland - and from my own experience with friends from Ulster.

    Is the drinking culture up the north a bit more crazy than south ?

    I know - I shouldn't be watching .

    But if so - (why?) - is there a cultural, social or political context.


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  • #2
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    They have a lot of issues up the North.
    Drink would be one of the lesser ones.


  • #3
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,001 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    They have a lot of issues up the North.
    Drink would be one of the lesser ones.

    But - in that context - , do them issues lead to a live for the moment - **** it buck-fast mentality.


  • #4
    Effects
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭Effects


    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    But - in that context - , do them issues lead to a live for the moment - **** it buck-fast mentality.

    No.


  • #5
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,001 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    Effects wrote: »
    No.

    I don't agree.

    The ones I have come across are all crazy for the moment.

    Great fun to be with - but it seems more of them are a bit......................


  • #6
    Effects
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    All the ones I know are grand.


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  • #7
    topper75
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    The good Doctor had an issue with the drink. As in he didn't want anybody touching the stuff. Many Duppers would be likewise. His chuckle brother Marty didn't sup either.


  • #8
    HalloweenJack
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    The ones I've met (from both sides of the divide) seem to be much like ourselves. You get the whole run of them: those who'll go out for a few drinks here and there, those who need to get absolutely plastered every time they go out and those who are usually the last ones standing. Drinkers come in all shapes and sizes. Considering the relationship people have with drink in these islands, you're splitting hairs if you think one particular group has it worse than the others.


  • #9
    NIMAN
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    Up North they like to used the 'legacy of the troubles' as an excuse for everything.

    That's why it's one of the sickest societies around in terms of packed gp surgeries, people of anti depressants, sick off work etc.

    They'll still be playing the troubles card in 50 years from what I can see.


  • #10
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,854 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Up North they like to used the 'legacy of the troubles' as an excuse for everything.

    That's why it's one of the sickest societies around in terms of packed gp surgeries, people of anti depressants, sick off work etc.

    They'll still be playing the troubles card in 50 years from what I can see.

    They will continue with it for as long as they get away with it. And I mean both sides


  • #11
    seamus
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    It's their Scottish blood.


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  • #12
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Well considering they went through 25 years of bloodshed & mayhem...can you really blame them??

    seamus wrote: »
    It's their Scottish blood.

    yes, the irish never drink do they :cool:


  • #13
    donegaLroad
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    the pubs are full of Northerners here and always were. But its hard to tell how much 'they' drink over others because everyone turns into an alcoholic when they visit Donegal.


  • #14
    Effects
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    NIMAN wrote: »

    They'll still be playing the troubles card in 50 years from what I can see.

    You think society recovers from something like that overnight?

    Almost like the way slavery in the US has had no repercussions on modern society there.


  • #15
    A Little Pony
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    It's due to a society which has no honor and no dignity anymore and no morals. A decaying society.


  • #16
    fryup
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    A Little Pony wrote: »
    It's due to a society which has no honor and no dignity anymore and no morals. A decaying society.

    i don't think we're in any position to tut tut down here.....with our legacy of Madeleine laundries, paedophile priests, industrial schools and our on going homeless crisis....and not to mention dublin city centre with all the junkies about


  • #17
    bullpost
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    fryup wrote: »
    i don't think we're in any position to tut tut down here.....with our legacy of Madeleine laundries, paedophile priests, industrial schools and our on going homeless crisis....and not to mention dublin city centre with all the junkies about

    Madeleine laundries - Didn't Proust write a great memoir about those?


  • #18
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Nordies have more craic


  • #19
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Less sunlight, colder weather, low living and social standards. Similar to the Scots.


  • #20
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Don't have much experience with them, aside from drinking with middle class Unionists in Frankfurt one night. They were very courteous towards me.


  • #21
    ToddyDoody
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    A Little Pony wrote: »
    It's due to a society which has no honor and no dignity anymore and no morals. A decaying society.

    The UK isn't as much of a moralistic society as we are. Their thrust is more of the hard warrior type, as stupid as that / I sound.


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